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Movie Synopsis

A Las Vegas showroom magician uses his stage show to hide that he can see two minutes into the future. This makes him a powerful tool between those who wish to do bad and those who wish to stop them.

Movie Review Summary

This certainly had it all on paper: Nicolas Cage in a action packed film, the ability to see the future, and a good supporting cast. And really, this could have been such a great film. As it stands it is let down because what is meant to be the main plot – the nuclear attack on LA – actually becomes a sub-plot to a romance between Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel. Which wasn’t really what I was hoping for. Oh yes, they try to keep pulling it back to the good versus bad content (although why the good are good and the bad are bad is never ever mentioned in this, nor are any motives for a terrorist attack) and the motives in the film relate to the romantic.

There is some good trickery in here, some well developed content that interconnects, and good acting (if not some over-acting to boot).

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